Blessed bread

• Prize
• Photographer
  Gianluca De Bartolo, Italy

Gheorghe and Silviuca Gherman live, with their daughter, in
Sarbi, a small village in the Maramures county, Romania.
Every sunday they prepare a special bread for the church, bread
that will be blessed and given to the faithful for the communion.
A symbol that means "Jesus Christ prevails" is made on the
bread using a stamp called "pecetar".
It is necessary to have a special blessing by a priest in order to
be allowed to prepare the holy bread.
In the Gherman family both mother and daughter have this
permission.

• Awards
  2010 - Polaris photo contest - 5 place for the categories "wildlife shot and 3 honorable mention for the categories "wildlife shot" and Lands and travelling people". 2010 - FIOF professional awards - 3 Silver awards for the categories "reportage and photojournalism" , 1 bronze award for the category "reportage and photojournalism". 2011 - FIOF professional awards - 1 bronze award for the category "reportage and photojournalism". 2011 - Oasis photo contest - 4 place for the category "people and population". Jury was led by american photographer Steve McCurry. 2012 - FIOF Nikon awards - 4 silver awards for the category "reportage and photojournalism" , 4 bronze awards for the category "portraits". 2012 - International Sillian Organisation - finalist for the section "color" with 3 photos , and for the section "monochrome" with 2 photos. 2012 - Travel photographer of the year - Finalist and nominee for the best single image for the category "people watching".